Wednesday, June 30, 2010

I made it through to the 3rd round of the Last Scrapper Standing at Memorable Seasons! Whew! It is so tough to vote each week, there are always so many awesome entries. But now we are down to 10 and I am so happy to be among them. Here's mine, the requirememnts were to use a black base and homemade flowers. You can never go wrong with lollipop flowers.

Puppy Love

Our sweet doggy had puppies. No matter how hard we tried to keep her away from those males, we didn't succeed. But now we have to most adorable puppies to play with.Here's what one of them looks like today. Cute and cuddly! Next challenge for me: negative space and clusters.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

I've been participating in a contest over at one of my favorite sites, Memorable Seasons, called Last Scrapper Standing. I survived the first round of votes and now I'm on to the second. It feels just like American Idol! LOL!The first challenge was to create a LO based on the theme "an American child" and to also incorporate stars and stripes somewhere on the LO. Here's what I came up with:

I wanted to steer clear of the traditional American colors so I added lots of colors and patterns. It may be alot but I love the way it turned out.

The next challenge is to use a black cardstock for the base and include all handmade flowers. The flowers are easy-peasy, the black is what worries me. We shall see what I come up with.

It's too late to officially join in the contest but you can still come play along for fun and I think door prizes. ;)

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

This is my last month designing for Your Scrapbook Stash, **boohoo** and though I am sad to leave, I am excited about my new ventures. Your Scrapbook Stash recently introduced their new team and its fabulous! Erica sent me the "Documentary" line from Studio Calico. It couldn't have been more perfect for my California vacation photos. I used this line with the "Homefront" collection from SC that I had in my stash. The 2 are the perfect combination.

...um, there's a lot to share.

California Vacation

Home Is Where You Are

Grandpa's Boys

Along The Coast

By The Sea

I wrote all of the journaling on the backs so I don't forget any moments or instances on our trip.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Today is the first day of summer! Woohoo for some! Its getting pretty toasty here in Arizona.I hope you all had a wonderful Father's Day yesterday. My DH was spoiled rotten!Today we are revealing this week's sketch and I've got some great examples from the design team. Here we go...

Sketch 70

Susan BourgeoisCast The Net

Pearl LiuMy Girl

Monique LiedtkeSummertime

Lisa HidyMy Best Friend Forever

Kylie SymonsLean On Me

Laurel SeabrookI Scrap

Arlene CamachoHer Cute face

Fabulous creations from the DT!Try the sketch and add it to Mr. Linky below before the end of the month and you could be the winner from this month's sponsor Scrapbookdeals4u!

Treasured Scrapbooking recently had a spontaneous online crop over the weekend called "Splash Into Summer". This was perfect timing because I have a ton of photos from our trip to California. Here's a few that I made for the crop:

Monday, June 14, 2010

Happy Flag Day in the US!I hope you all had a fabulous weekend. So school is out pretty much everywhere, right? Summer officially starts in 7 days, yes I have my calendar nearby. It's starting to show...so many of you are on vacation! Lucky dogs!

Sketch 69

We only a few examples from the DT today because like I said, so many o us are vacationing this week.

Kylie SymonsSo Sweet

Pearl LiuStay Strong

Susan BourgeoisIn The Playhouse

I think I'll be making a sample myself today so stay tuned for that.

This sketch is full of layering and its really open to interpretation. Try the sketch, add it to Mr. Linky below and you could be this month's winner. Winner receives that fabulous kit from Scrapbookdeals4u! Woohoo!

Saturday, June 12, 2010

I got over 20 emails from those playing along to win the K&Co. Poppy Seed kit from QueenScraps. You guys rock! I hope you got a chance to look around theQueenScraps site a little, its a great place to visit. And as you can see we have some fabulous weekly kits this month for a great price: less than $10 each!

Ok, I used Random.org to choose the winner this time. The winner is:

Teresa Fenstermacher!

Congrat, Teresa, you've won yourself the K&Co. kit! Email me with your addy and we'll get this out to you!

I owe you some winners...and lots of them! Thank you for all the wonderful comments this week. I opened up my comments and had my daughter scroll and point to 3 winners. How's that for random? Each of these lovely ladies have won $10 in Stash Cash. Here they are:

Scrappy Giftsarlsmom aka LyndaBrendaCongrats ladies! Email me and I'll reply with the codes you need to get shopping right away!The last day to apply for the YSS design team is Tuesady June 5th! It's coming up so get your apps in!

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Your Scrapbook Stash is sponsoring a cute challenge blog called Scrap It With A Song. This week the challenge is to make a LO based on the song "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" by the incredible Cyndi Lauper. I loved her as a kid and I loved watching her on the Celebrity Apprentice. A few of the YSS DT members, including myself, participated in the challenge. Here's what I created:

Boys Just Wanna Have Fun

Play along and you could be the winner of a $25 gift certificate from Your Scrapbook Stash! Man, there's a lot of fun stuff going on!

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

This week's kit at QueenScraps is really cute! It features all you need to complete 2-3 projects. I haven't used papers from K&Company in a long time, I'm so glad I got the chance this week! This is from their Poppy Seed collection.

Here's what I created with the kit:

Oh So Happy

Backyard Bliss

We've got several specials for June going on at the QueenScraps site:-Buy any 3 Copic markers and get a coordinating color for free!-Spend $50 and get free shipping, spend less than $50 and get a free gift.

This week I get to give one of these K&Company Poppy Seed kits away! Yay! Here's what you need to do:Visit the QueenScraps site and answer the following questions:

-List the names of all the design team members.-Name all the kits featured for June.-Tell me which kit is your favorite..

That's it! Email me your answers and the winner will randomly be chosen on Saturday June 12th. Please put QueenScraps kit in the subject line.